Man I have not posted here in a long time. And BL has become BA. Very fitting. So since I haven't been on in a while, anyone got any crazy new theories they want to share? Those usually turn out interesting. And when I say theories I mean anything GT. Maybe to get this thread kickstarted.

You can't make some one into a masochrist. Well, not in quite the sense that you might be thinking. I'll just go get my other post again.

Blood Archon wrote:

CrimsonCreed wrote:well well looks like i was right to think Mimi looked up to Raven seeing as shes copying her chakra gem and haircut. And knowing Him, he's not going to take the new look well, looks like another round of torture for Mimi is coming

Blood Archon wrote:Mimi's love of pain is... curious.

I was thinking it was on there from super glue, but I guess this works too.

Mimi's love for pain isn't curious at all its cruel and sick, Him put Mimi through so much sick torture she developed a sense of pleasure from it as a way to cope with it.

Welcome to the site, Crimson. I hope you enjoy your time here.

I don't think Him is going to care at all. He might find it curious, but he doesn't seem like the sort of parent that would punish his kids for burning a chakra gem into their forehead, or for them cutting their own hair.

As for the pain, it is curious. Its curious that she has developed a sense of satisfaction towards pain, more specifically, Sadomasochism or masochism. We have no idea, although you could suspect, that it came from Him torturing Mimi. HOWEVER, I am inclined to believe otherwise since that is not how sadomasochism or masochism develops. It usually develops as a source of therapeutic escape from stress, responsibility, or guilt. So I would suspect that Mimi's love of pain doesn't come from torture sessions, but a way to escape (possibly) her guilty over killing her mother and the death of her friends. Its a way to escape the life she is currently in.

GrimlyLoveGunner wrote:Actually if the chakra gem restricts evil do we think it'll have any effect on her powers?

Well, that depends if it is an actual chakra gem. I don't think it is, thus it shouldn't have any effect on her powers.

Him didn't really make her into becoming a masochrist, that would have a tendency to develop a more sadistic personality. However the results and Mimi's own internal feelings of what happened to her to get to this point could.

Nina333 wrote: think her fetish for pain is a coping mechanism for all the trauma Him put her through.

We've seen how Mimi is about pain before, although chronologically-speaking the fight with Junior and Minnie happens a lot later. Then, too, it was one of the few times Mimi has even made a sound.

I find it more interesting that that Mimi is in an emotional place to make the decision and take the initiative, not just to accept the chakra gem even though it came from a hero and friend we can assume is dead, but to make it, more or less, a permanent part of herself. You could say she's forged it as a part of herself in the Fires of Hell -- and while hair grows, we know that Mimi prefers the widow's peak hairstyle over the hime cut she had before.

HIM would certainly take an interest in Mimi's decisions, however only in the sense of a mad scientist observing one of his favourite experimental subjects. But that might also just be me after only recently reading Amazing Spider-Man: Spider Island. The Jackal is one creepy dude. I think HIM would approve.